. >> reporter: a lot of money was raced for bradley manning's defense. one is jeff paterson. $1.4million was raised to keep the private out of jail. as it turns out, he is convicted of 20 of the 22 counts against him. but you say this is a success. >> the judge agreed bradley manning is not a traitor didn't intend to aid the enemy. he is a whistle-blower in every sense of the world and with that money, we were able to change the public discuss from bradley manning traitor into a real discussion of how heroic he was in giving the information that we the people needed to have to make intelligent decisions on our foreign policy. >> reporter: how dangerous is that, though, if somebody releases classified information and potentially the enemies get it. how can we allow that, especially from our service people? >> reporter: just depends on what information we're talking about. -- >> in this case bradley manning gave us historical documents to let us retrospectively evaluate what we did in afghanistan and iraq and whether that's correct foreign policy for our n